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        It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

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          It’s far more ethical to make the company lose money

          Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

          Pirate photoshop

          Delete it

          Pirate again

          Repeat 30 times

          Adobe looses 660$

          If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

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            66 hours ago

            They don’t care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.

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          54 hours ago

          Well the obvious answer would be all the professional Photoshop capable things man, we can love Linux and still admit there’s areas for growth

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          If you want to edit photos then Affinity is passable, and GIMP is a joke.

          If all you want to do is draw, then Krita is a very capable alternative to Photoshop, but being good at only a specific subset of Photoshop capabilites doesn’t turn it into a replacement for it

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      27 hours ago

      Fuck I’d love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it’s closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.

      There’s a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.

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        56 hours ago

        Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you’re used to photoshop there’s nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it’s worth it, I’m still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing